“He’s here, he’s there, he’s every fucking where: Roy Kent, Roy Kent!” chants the loyal Richmond crowd in tribute to the captain of the struggling English football club at the heart of the TV series Ted Lasso. It seemed almost prophetic of what awaited Brett Goldstein, the 46-year-old actor who plays the gruff Kent. Since joining the hit Apple TV comedy’s main cast, having originally been hired only as a writer, he has gone from being virtually unknown outside the United Kingdom to starring in a romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez, appearing alongside Harrison Ford in a television series, and becoming Marvel’s new Hercules.

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Una espada de bronce que llevaba más de tres mil años en el fondo de un lago ha salido a la superficie con el filo todavía cortante. La han recuperado los arqueólogos subacuáticos de la Soprintendenza de Viterbo en el lago di Mezzano, un pequeño lago de origen volcánico del Lacio, la región italiana donde […]

Hace unos veintidós siglos, el sitio donde hoy se excava en el Valle de los Templos era el lugar donde los ciudadanos libres de Akragas, el nombre griego de Agrigento, se reunían para decidir los asuntos de su ciudad. Ese edificio, un graderío semicircular que los arqueólogos llaman ekklesiasterion (de ekklesía, «asamblea» en griego), es […]

Hace unos 3.700 años, quien cruzaba la gran sala de La Almoloya, en lo alto de un cerro de Sierra Espuña, tenía que pasar por encima de un hombre. Estaba enterrado justo en el punto de paso entre las dos mitades de la estancia, con la parte baja del cuerpo bajo el hogar y la […]

El Faro de Alejandría lleva más de siete siglos derrumbado. Una serie de terremotos, entre ellos los de 1303 y 1323, acabaron con la torre que durante unos dieciséis siglos había guiado a los barcos hacia la ciudad. Pero su silueta acaba de reaparecer en el fondo del mar, reducida al tamaño de un anillo. […]

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the state body that protects archaeological heritage in each Italian province) recovered it from Lake Mezzano, a small volcanic lake in Lazio, the region around […]

More than 2,000 years ago, the hilltop where archaeologists are now digging in Sicily’s Valley of the Temples was where the free citizens of Akragas met to decide their city’s business. Akragas is the Greek name for Agrigento. The place is marked by a semicircular set of stone seating that scholars call an ekklesiasterion (from […]

As the controversy over AI safety grows, another debate is emerging. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, has said that artificial intelligence should pay taxes to compensate for the jobs that will be destroyed by the deployment of this technology.

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A Spanish judge on Tuesday lifted an arrest warrant for exiled Catalan former separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, paving the way for his return to Spain ahead of a general election in November.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday announced two new decrees aimed at placating nationwide protests over Spain's housing crisis, after parliament's rejection of similar measures last week led him to call a snap election.

Following the British Prime Minister's recent comments about the possibility of the UK rejoining the EU, we asked our readers about how their lives would change if this became a reality. From the 90-day rule, to homes and visas, you had plenty to say.

The first hearing of the Supreme Court’s new term on Monday addressed one of the most consequential cases for the U.S. energy sector: The City of Boulder v. Suncor Energy, a lawsuit regarded as one of the major battles over liability for climate change. Framed by many as a David-and-Goliath dispute, the City of Boulder, Colorado, sued two oil companies seeking accountability for climate change. Justices heard the parties’ arguments for roughly two hours and questioned lawyers on technical and jurisdictional matters. These are the key points in one of the most important court battles expected in the coming months.

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With a snap election called for November and the housing crisis at the centre of voters’ worries, we look at the policies proposed by Spain’s conservative and far-right parties, which polls suggest are favourites to form the next Spanish government.

Around 3,700 years ago, anyone crossing the great hall at La Almoloya, a hilltop settlement in the Sierra Espuña mountains of southeastern Spain, had to walk over a man. He lay at the exact point where the two halves of the room meet, his lower body under the hearth and his face about a centimeter […]

Torrential rain and flash floods are becoming increasingly common in Barcelona, Catalonia and the country's eastern regions as a whole, with Catalan authorities warning that everything from public transport to the sewage system has to be improved.

“There is only one president in this country and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moros,” Venezuela’s current interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, said on the same day as the U.S. attack that ended with the detention of the former chavista leader and his wife, Cilia Flores. Rodríguez described the military intervention in Caracas as an “illegal and illegitimate kidnapping of the president and first lady.” However, Venezuela later did not take any formal steps to demand the couple’s release or to request their immunity so they would not be tried in the United States.

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The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 and 1323, brought down the tower that had guided ships towards the city for some sixteen hundred years. Its outline has now turned up on the seabed again, shrunk to the size of a ring. […]

For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world’s political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch. It was called Dahala Khagrabari (enclave number 51) and it belonged to India. It sat inside a piece of Bangladesh, which lay inside a pocket of Indian territory, which was itself […]

AI agents going rogue and ever-louder doomsday warnings have led many in Europe to wonder: are the EU's artificial intelligence rules enough to protect against the potential dangers?

Durante décadas, uno de los lugares más raros del mapa político del mundo fue una parcela de cultivo de menos de una hectárea. Se llamaba Dahala Khagrabari (enclave número 51), pertenecía a India y estaba rodeada por un trozo de Bangladés, que a su vez estaba dentro de una bolsa de territorio indio, que a […]